Welcome to the Manchester United Special! A new era, kind of, begins! Manchester United have a phenomenal run of fixtures, have a squad full of underperforming, under-priced assets, and have a new management team full of club legends to guide the club forward with some of the pressure off, while the club look for new players, a new manager and a new director of football. This leaves us with one of the best fixture lists in the game… This run is devoid of League Cup or UCL fixtures. It will have some FA Cup fixtures in early and mid January, but other than that it is a focused time for Manchester United to show something under a new manager. So we look at 4 assets this week who could benefit from all the above.

Marcus Rashford

6.9m Manchester United Cardiff, Huddersfield, Bournemouth. 8.6% TSB Replacement for: Wilson � Injury niggles and a touted move to Chelsea could distract the England International, with difficult fixtures ahead for the Cherries. When he hits form, he hits form, and although his minutes have been managed he does seem to return when on the pitch. The downside on this though is that he has only completed 90 minutes twice this season for United in the League. But 3 goals and 5 assists see's him on 3.4 points per game, this could raise especially given his form (4 assists, and 1 goal in 4 matches). There is a risk as we wait to see how Ole sets up his forward line, but with Alexis still healing up from injury Rashford could provide pace and points from either flank or down the middle.

Romelu Lukaku

10.7m Manchester United Cardiff, Huddersfield, Bournemouth. 4.4% TSB Replacement for: Kane or Aubameyang � Both extremely popular at the moment in FPL due to their form at the end of November, Injuries to other premium forwards and good fixtures over the festive fixture build up… However, both have underperformed in recent weeks and rotation could strike at any time especially with England's captain reportedly suffering with a cold. Well, Lukaku. He has been, honestly, disastrous this season. Some of his pivotal and unbelievable misses lead United to a poor run of results and form followed. He bulked out in the summer for the World Cup and has failed to adapt his training and fitness to the Premier League this season. He looks isolated, bereft of a first touch, and despondent. However, he still is the premium forward at United, he still usually see's 90 minutes in most matches, he still has a proved FPL pedigree. Sitting slightly better than Rashford on 3.8 points per match the Belgian has to improve this number as he looks to save his United Career. A gentle reminder that in 188 Premier League games before this season Lukaku had 144 goal contributions. And historically has returned 5.5 points ger game on average across 7 seasons. Phenomenal numbers.

Victor Lindelof

4.8m Manchester United Cardiff, Huddersfield, Bournemouth 0.8% TSB Possible replacement for: Digne or Kolasnicac or Doherty � But to be honest, all of these are better at the moment. United's defence has been abject this year, and with rumours that a new experienced center back is being touted for the January market, the club would do well to get through this rocky defensive patch. Although De Gea took the golden gloves last season and posted phenomenal numbers, the stats were interesting; showing that his xGA was phenomenal. What this showed us was that he faced an awful lot of shots, so United were not defensively good, just had the world's best keeper behind calamity Jones and Smalling. Lindelof and Baily haven't pulled up tree's at the Old Trafford club, but with the good fixtures and a potential turn in fortune they could change their unconvincing defensive history.

Bonus: Alexis Sanchez (Injured)

10.0m Manchester United Cardiff, Huddersfield, Bournemouth 1.2% TSB Possible replacement for: No one. There are already too many good assets in this position. One to put on your watchlist for the longterm. With a severely deflated price and a memory that just 2 seasons ago he returned 267 points… after just hitting 30 years of age there are still significant legs in the Chilean. Watch out. Until Next Time... Make Good Choices! Jared Follow FPLbet for weekly fantasy features, opinion and stats... Follow @fplbet[/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][fusion_builder_column type="1_6" layout="1_6" spacing="" center_content="no" hover_type="none" link="" mer_position="all" padding="" dimension_margin="" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset="" last="no" element_content=""][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]